Where is Herm?

He went back to writing books under his pen name Clayton Bigsby.

Reincarnated as someone else.  

Ever since the Soaring Eagle Casino started 24 hour keno play he hasn't been seen or heard from.

Anybody check the obituaries? 

Come on, I know you are all thinking it.

"Herm" had some good thoughts. But any time you repeatedly cross the line, you can expect either Bolivia or banning.

I don't know definitively (and don't need to know, and don't care to know,) but I believe that the mods or proprieters will allow some amount of rudeness, especially if you yourself have been attacked and insulted beyond what is acceptable. The thing is, when a user repeatedly crosses the line, and starts to live there, it becomes more problematic. In the meta post on this topic, Brian mentioned the sense some users have of entitlement. I think this sense of entitlement comes from various places:

1. Cluelessness.
2. Longevity on the board.
3. Solid contributions to the board.
4. Having gotten away with rudeness before.
5. Being warned by mods, and nothing happening.

The point system returning will allow for so much more board self-policing. I think without the negbang/posbang active to give and take away points, and with the overall tone of lawlessness and rudeness, some users abused the privilege of being on the board. Newbies, esp. trolls, could come on the board with no fear of retribution for what they wrote. Some users who had been around more than four years, with a ton of "points," felt they could say anything with impunity.

The one at play with Herm, I believe, is number 5. There was one time years ago when I wrote something politically incorrect. I was warned by a mod that repeated infractions would result in some kind of sanction. (It actually looked like boilerplate or something generated by an autobot.) Anyway, I have to believe that "Herm" was told to tone it down, and didn't. Because of the shtick at play, maybe the poster known as "Herm" wanted to work the system to see how much it would take to get "Herm" banned. idk. But I can't imagine trying to keep things straight when users have multiple accounts and personalities (a la RDT.)

Herm was a fraud.  I'm legitimately over 60 and his schtick was annoying as hell.  And that was before he got abusive.

can I have my points back? Pretty please...

Herm,

Remember when you left MGoBlog? Before all this, before Brian going off his shit? You were gone seven months. Seven months I waited, hoping that you wouldn't come back. Every month, I took a holiday. I went to Florence, there's this cafe, on the banks of the Arno. Every fine evening, I'd sit there and order a Fernet Branca. I had this fantasy, that I would look across the tables and I'd see you there, with a wife and maybe a couple of kids. You wouldn't say anything to me, nor me to you. But we'd both know that you'd made it, that you were happy. I never wanted you to come back to MGoBlog. I always knew there was nothing here for you, except pain and tragedy. And I wanted something more for you than that. I still do.

-His Dudeness

haranguing his fellow jello-eaters at lunch and dinner.

once they get his meds sorted out.  That blood pressure medicine can lead to some cray-cray loco behavior.

You know its a slow day on MGoBlog when . . .

A thread asking about a banned poster's whereabouts gets 62+ comments.

As a personal friend of the real Herm I can state that he is alive but busy with real life. We are working on getting him back don't worry. Herm's fire was fueled by the blog getting pissed about the smallest things like signing Herm at the end of each post and posters getting their panties in a bunch over Dave Brandon posts. Long live Herm.